Kennedy on health care

Patrick Kennedy, D - Doucheville, had this to say about the Catholic Church......

“I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human person is being respected by the fact that we’re caring and giving health care to the human person—that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured,” Kennedy told CNSNews.com when asked about a letter the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had sent to members of Congress stating the bishops' position on abortion funding in the health-care bill.

“You mean to tell me the Catholic Church is going to be denying those people life saving health care? I thought they were pro-life?” said Kennedy. “If the church is pro-life, then they ought to be for health care reform because it’s going to provide health care that are going to keep people alive. So this is an absolute red herring and I don’t think that it does anything but to fan the flames of dissent and discord and I don’t think it’s productive at all."

Let me clue Kennedy here on something.

Before the Kennedy clan bottled it first bootlegged whiskey, this country was covered in hospitals run by the church; giving the poor and in firmed health care. Just where does he think names like St. Anne's, St. Elizabeth's, St. Luke come from?

What about the other religious hospitals like here in Cincinnati..... Jewish, Christ and Bethesda, who's leadership didn't wait for 200 years for the government to take care of the poor before they decided it was an important mission for their faiths?

While we're on the church, how is it that the oldest schools in most communities originated from the missionary work of Christians? They didn't sit around and lobby ass hats like Kennedy to save the poor, the uneducated, the unwashed and the in firmed. They actually did something with their own resources; not those stolen from the populace.

So maybe Kennedy could take that fortune his family has amassed over the years and actually buy some poor people insurance instead of extracting it from others like people of faith have done for generations.

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